Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius, born in Berlin on May 18, 1883, was a German architect and educator. He founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany in 1919 and was director from 1919-1928. He designed modern buildings of glass and steel, with clean lines and no ornamentation. He designed the Fagus Factory with Adolf Meyer in 1911, the Bauhaus in 1925, and his own Massachusetts home in 1937, which was constructed in 1938.

Gropius married Alma Mahler in 1915 and they had a daughter, Manon Gropius in 1916. Alma and Gropius divorced in 1920. Gropius fled to England in 1934, and then to the United States. From 1938-1952 he was the Chairman of the Department of Architecture at Harvard University. Walter Gropius died on July 5, 1969.

Click below to see some photos and his architecture:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/74644976@N00/sets/72157594427431755/

Click on this link to see additional photos of Walter Gropius:
http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/photos/mahler/waltergropius.html

Click on this link for a little more information about Walter Gropius. Again, keep in mind that this is not a scholarly source:
http://www.alma-mahler.at/engl/almas_life/gropius.html